DR Strings' K3 NEON Hi-Def White Electric Lite-Heavy strings are an excellent idea for those wanting to add some pizazz to their rig during performances. It's easy for players to fall in love with the bright color that matches their remarkable sound. Super bright in daylight and under stage lighting, DR Strings' NEONs are 100% black light active and glow strongly under UV lighting. These strings will last you as long as a coated string should (three to four times as long as uncoated strings) maintaining a sound that is not only good, but better than top-quality uncoated strings.

I've been using the strings for 5 weeks. So far, the coating has stayed on them, and they have been played quite a bit. The glow under UV is quite impressive. If you coupled these strings with other UV reactive accessories, it looks pretty cool during a show.The tone is bright and crisp. The coating doesn't seem to make the strings sound darker than uncoated DRs, and the tone does seem to change over time, but far less than with uncoated strings.For the price, I don't see any drawbacks. I only wish these were available with the coating in individual gauges, so that I could use them with 7-8 string guitars, too.